Albuquerque Designates Fifth Fire Station as a Wildland Station

Designation includes additional staffing a new apparatus

 

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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – A new team of firefighters will be helping with wildfires this season.

Albuquerque Fire Rescue has designated Station 22 near Unser and Paradise as the fifth Wildland Division Station in Albuquerque. It allows for six more firefighters to assist with wildland fires, and the station will also receive a new brush truck.

Firefighters are reminding people there’s still high fire danger despite the wet spring. MORE

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Designation includes additional staffing a new apparatus     KRQE ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – A new team of firefighters will be helping with wildfires this season. Albuquerque Fire Rescue has designated Station 22 near Unser and Paradise as the fifth Wildland Division Station in Albuquerque. It allows for six more firefighters to assist with wildland […]

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